'Tsvangirai, Mugabe are both failures,' says Biti

Opposition leader Tendai Biti has rallied the young generation to rise to the challenge of rescuing the country saying President Robert Mugabe and his political nemesis Morgan Tsvangirai were two sides of the same coin and abysmal failures.

The MDC-T secretary general told a meeting of his Renewal Team's Midlands South structures in Gweru at the weekend that Zimbabwe needed a generational paradigm shift.

"President Robert Mugabe represents the failure of the liberation movement that is Zanu-PF while Tsvangirai is the face of the failure of the democratic struggle.

The former finance minister said the young generation needs to take up the fight to rescue the country.

He said the recreation of the Zimbabwean state needs to happen as a matter of urgency to alleviate the ordinary people's suffering.